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ELFQUEST
1979-1995
ElfQuest is a graphic novel series that began in 1978 in a black and white comic. They went to color in the 1980s and told a story of survival about a band of elves on a primitive planet. When the fan club started up in the early 80s, numerous chapters (called "Holts") sprang up consisting of groups of fans writing their own stories of elves elsewhere on the same planet.
I discovered ElfQuest in 1979, and then created the Timber Valley Holt in 1984, running it until 1990 with 60+ members (named for "Timber Valley Road" where I grew up). Between 1979-1990, I belonged to twelve Holts altogether, including my own. In 1995, the Timber Valley Holt was briefly revived through several new publications, but with little interest by the old membership, it did not last long.
In this section, you will see stories divided up by Holt. Each group produced their own quarterly newsletters, where they printed their stories and artwork. The stories you see in this section are the stories I wrote for some of the groups I belonged to. Sometimes my stories would refer to tales written by others in those newsletters, so if you were to read them now, they would seem a little disjointed. Titles shown in gray were started by never finished.
• YEARNINGS — Submissions published in the sanctioned fanzines of collected fan-submitted material.
"Brothers in All But Blood"
Yearnings #1
"Shenla"
Yearnings #2
"Thought from the Heart"
Yearnings #3
• BACK BAY HOLT — Created by Frank Strom and Christine Sanni of Boston, Massachusetts. The Back Bay Holt was the very first ElfQuest fandom chapter I joined, at the beginning of the Official ElfQuest Fan Club. Based out of Boston, Massachusetts, the group began merely as a group of friends to discuss the fantasy comic ElfQuest, and the "newsletters" were a mixture of artwork and discussions. Only later did the newsletter turn to actual stories of the characters and situations we created to use within the World of Two Moons. Unfortunately, the group did not last long and my beginnings as a fantasy writer was unrealized beyond a single tale.
"Homeward Bound"
• BRIGHT MOUNTAIN HOLT — Created by Mark and Terri Barnard of Wichita, Kansas.
"The Long Way Home"
"A Change of Lifestyle"
"All It Takes"
• RAPID RIVER HOLT — Created by Laurel Gugin of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
"Change for the Better"
"Time Will Tell"
"Side Effects"
"Bow Fishing"
"Loved Ones Lost"
"Little Teeth"
"The Pendant"
"Strangleweed Tears"
• SHADOW ISLAND HOLT — Created by Diana Davis and Bill Spurlock of Atlanta, Georgia.
"The Rock that Would Not Shape"
"Shadows of Home"
"Return to Starvale"
• SILVER SANDS HOLT — Created by Melissa Van Houten of New York.
"Taking Up Residence"
• STONE OAK HOLT — Created by Mike and Elizabeth Curtis of Denton, Texas.
"After the Rains"
"One Cool Evening"
"Beyond the Healer"
"Wolf Thought"
"Preparations"
"Calmleaf"
"Loved by the Sun"
"Attack of the Mysterious, Malevolent Deeps"
• TIMBERLAKE HOLT — Created by Diana Stein and Bill Spurlock of Detroit, Michigan.
"The Reunion"
"A True Unyielding Friend"
"Return to Friendly Waters"
"Old Habits Die Hard"
"Old Habits Never Die"
"Pitfall"
"Twinlight's Trouble"
• TIMBER VALLEY HOLT — Created by Ted Blasingame of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1984-1990).
"Timber Valley Beginnings"
"Those Who Enter"
"Death Flood"
"Snow Play"
"Stranger to the Valley"
"Birth of a Flame"
"Nightstep's Beard"
"Changing Ideals"
"Spy"
"Surprise!"
"Mooncrest's Decision"
"Strange Alliances"
"Tactics of War"
"The Heat of the Battle"
"Changes"
"Something Fishy"
"Like a Moth"
"The Old One"
Tales of the Storyteller
(.pdf / 427 pgs. / 3.5 MB)
This file contains ALL Timber Valley stories arranged
in chronological order, written by Timber Valley members
(not just mine, but all of them).
• TRAILDUSTER HOLT — Created by Ruth Clark of New Mexico.
"A Diamond in the Rough"
• WOLFGANG HOLT — Created by Terrie Smith of San Diego, California.
"Tagalong"
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